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ing up to answer their questions, his candor, and perhaps the funniest line of the meeting: “No, I won’t be playing paintball with you tomorrow.”

The most moving part of the Mid-Year was the presentation by Sgt. Matt Eversmann who recounted his harrowing story of an 18-hour battle on the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, which was the basis for the 2001 ﬁlm Black Hawk Down . He left the audience with three attributes that helped him survive in Mogadishu and would help them navigate through life: leadership, courage, and selﬂess service. Sgt. Eversmann hung around after his talk to chat with people, and he and his family also enjoyed the PCCA bowling event. This year’s Mid-Year Meeting also included a general ses-sion on employee engagement and a Young Construction Professionals program on supply chain client relationships, both led by FMI’s Lee Smither. The Membership Commit-tee met to discuss member recruitment, topics for future educational sessions, and how to get folks more involved.

The Labor Committee used its time at the meeting to discuss the job classiﬁcations used on Davis-Bacon prevailing wage surveys and to begin creating standard classiﬁcations that all contractors can use. The goal is to have the job classiﬁcations more accurately reﬂect jobsite realities.

PCCA President Larry Libla and his wife, Pam, selected the Greenbrier for the Mid-Year because of its history, beauti-ful location, unbeatable service, and wealth of fascinating and fun activities. PCCA members took advantage of all of the above, with tours of the famous Cold War era bunkers, afternoon tea each day in the hotel lobby, the Champagne Waltz each night in the casino, the aforementioned paintball and bowling outings, an afternoon of sporting clays (good practice for the paintball!), the PCCA golf tournament, and a wonderful closing night barbecue featuring an amazing local bluegrass band, the Locust Mountain Boys. After four days of good times at this fabulous resort, the sentiment from PCCA members seemed unanimous: Well done, Larry and Pam!

A-D Technologies 35 Aevenia, Inc. 43 AmericanWind Energy Association 39 Astec Underground Inside back cover Bethea Tool & Equipment Co., Inc. 44 Condux International 8 DitchWitch 3 FMI Corporation 15 FS3, Inc. 14, 33 General Machine Products Co. 26 Global HR Research 27 Grande Truck Center 32 HammerHead 12 Jameson Corporation 11 Kirby-Smith Machinery, Inc. 31 McLaughlin 22 NESCO, Inc. 4 PCCA 2012 Convention 36 PCCA 2011 Mid-Year Sponsors 45 PCCA 2012 Mid-Year 40 RWF Bron 34 Schonstedt Instrument Company 30 Scott Powerline & Utility Equipment 9 Sherman & Reilly, Inc. 6 Underground Construction Technology 28 Utility Equipment Leasing Company Inside front cover Vac-Tron Equipment Back cover Vermeer Manufacturing 16 Wagner-Smith Equipment Company 25

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